For the last 5 weeks, these students have taken a look at technology developed by past civilizations, touched some of the models in museums then did independent research about technology in the present. Then, can they predict the future technology? Yup, that's the challenge for their summative assessment in unit 2. They must identify the technology most needed by the society--they did survey to school community and their family. Then, they discuss with their small groups how to improve the current technology to meet people's need in the future. They used BAR thinker key, where they thought whether it should be made BIGGER (or smaller), ADDED with some features, and REPLACED/REMOVED some parts of the tools.
As you guess, some of students came up with ideas about "flying car"; which I didn't really recommend because it's been too outdated. If it were given 10 years ago, I would still accept it. So, here are some of the models of innovations they made: (left to right) magnetic car that runs with magnetic force instead of fossil fuels; auto-bin (a trash bin that can move around, consists of 3 separated containers for different kind of rubbish, plus auto-fragrant); mini water filter, which was inspired from people in Nusa Tenggara Timur and Africa who need access for clean water; GPS-luggage that can be tracked, included an auto scale system; and wind turbine that can be used to supply daily electricity needs. They haven't gone into details of how to make those innovations into reality, but for 5th graders, that deserves a round of applause. At least from me.
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